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Old Feb 5, 2005 | 01:25 PM
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I want to replace the fluid in my clutch system. Any tricks doing this?
I plan to use a pressure bleeder attached at the master cylinder (the same way I plan on doing the brakes).
Is the clutch slave cylinder accessible?

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Old Feb 5, 2005 | 03:59 PM
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The clutch slave is located where its very difficult to access. In other words it's a real PITA. I just suck the fuid out of the reservior and replace it with clean fuid every other month and that seems to be working fine for me. Unless you are having clutch issues, I would not go through the pain of trying to actually bleed the system.
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a turkey baster works great.
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Old Feb 6, 2005 | 04:43 PM
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I use a medical syinge. They are much better because to chance of it dripping oil is much less than the turkey baster method.
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http://www.97vette.com/howto/clutchbleed/index.html

Its a PITA, but if your fluid is guiness in color do it and then change it in the reservoir every few months. More often if hard use.
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